The origin of Rurik in the light of modern genetic research

Rurik. In the last article we described the historical circumstances in which we had to act Rurik. It's time to go directly to the main character of our study.

The annals of Rurik

About the Rurik of Russian Chronicles contains very little information. Here is a lengthy quote from "Tale of bygone years" in D. S. Likhachev.

Article 862, we see the following:

"Drove the Varangians over the sea, and not give them a tribute, and began themselves to own, and no truth among them, and stood on the kind of race, and was their strife, and began to fight with each other. And I said to myself: "let us Look for a Prince who would be owned by us and judged rightly." And went overseas to the Varangians, to the Rus. Those Vikings were called Rus, others are called Swedes, and others Normans and angles, and still others gotlanders, so these. Have told to Russ Chud, sloven, Krivich and all: "our Land is great and rich, but there is no dress. Come to reign and own us". And elect three brothers with their birth, and took with them all the Rus and came and sat senior Rurik in Novgorod, and another Sineus — in Beloozero, and the third, Truvor — in Izborsk. And from those Vikings nicknamed the Russian land. The Novgorodians same — the people from the Norman race, and before they were Slavs. In two years Sineus died, and his brother Truvor. And he took all the power one Rurik and began to distribute to the men of their city — to Polotsk, this growth, another Beloozero. The Varangians in these cities — nahodniki and the indigenous population in the Novgorod Slavs, Polotsk — Krivichi, Rostov — Merya, in Bel osere — all, in Murom — Murom, and of those all ruled by the Rurik. And he had two men are not his relatives, but the nobles, and they take time off to Constantinople with his race. And they went down the Dnieper, and when sailed by, we saw a small town on the hill. And asked: "Whose is this town?" Same answer: "there were three brothers, Kyi, Schek and Khoriv, who built this town and perished and we sit here, their descendants, and to pay tribute to the Khazars". Askold and dir remained in this city, have gathered a lot of Vikings began to possess the land and meadows. Rurik reigned in Novgorod."

The Second (and last) mention of Rurik in the chronicle has a article 879:

"Rurik Died and passed his reign Oleg, his kinsman, giving him at the hands of son Igor for that was still very small".

And that's it. Actually more about Rurik information. By and large, on these lines and only on their first two hundred years built all the debate about the origin of Rurik, its Affairs and its significance for Russian history.

Most copies have been broken around the origin of Rurik. Who is he – Scandinavian, Slav or Balt (Pruss)? Nominated even versions that he was of Polish origin.

For nearly three hundred years of disputes Normanists and antinormanists the text of the "Tale of bygone years" so many times out until the letters got so many interpretations, especially in terms of who was "the Vikings" that parse these few lines again it seems inappropriate.

Why are they arguing?

The Ideological component of the question about the origin of Rurik, was brought to this purely, it would seem that the scientific debate is still M. V. Lomonosov, always largely prevented the researchers soberly assess their existing scarce data. University in this respect, still can understand time in its history all of the researchers were considered as a set of acts of person in authority over a certain area. It was believed that it was their will, ability and energy are not that main, but the sole engine of historical processes. Such concepts as "economic base", "industrial relations", "surplus product" promulgated by modern historians in those days did not exist, and the historical process was viewed solely in the context of the acts and doings of princes, kings, khans, tsars, emperors and their entourage, which, by the way, in this case bear full responsibility for their results. The responsibility, however, not before people, but before God, but nevertheless, carried. For sincere believers of that time it was not an empty sound.

On the Basis of these assumptions, such a painful reaction of the Lomonosov and support its scientists and dignitaries, including Empress Elizabeth, for approval of the Scandinavian origin of the Varangians, expressed in the dissertation by G. F. Miller in 1749, again, in General, can be understood. Russia recently finished a victorious war with Sweden 1741-1743 gg, my memory of it is still fresh in the memory of many of its participants, the superiority over the Swedes, approved by Peter I, once again, is proven, and suddenly a German – German! – dares to say that the Creator of the Russian state was the Swede.

Emotional passage Lomonosov "the origin of the first Grand Dukes from the Russian besimjannij Scandinavians... the origin of the name Russian is very nedavnee, and that of Finn, finally often over the Russians of a victory of Scandinavians with osaditelya images not only in this speech to be unworthy... but in the whole of Russia to other States reprehensible, and Russian listeners annoying and very obnoxious to be", only confirms the bright color of his ideological objections to the work of the venerable, highly talented and impartial German scientist.

The more strange they seem now, when historical science has leaped forward, and the role of personality in history is radically revised, the attempts of somefigures, trying to realize their ambitions on the field of history, to look at historical process from the position of the so-called "scientific patriotism" and seriously try to prove the Slavic origin of Rurik, as evidence using scientific research, and appeals to the Patriotic content. By and large, already one term "scientific patriotism", the author A. A. klyosov has crossed all the scientific value of their own "historical" works, if it actually was the place to be. Politics, and hence patriotism, as long as it is a political term that has no place in science. – if she is busy with the search of objective truth, otherwise it's just not science.

Rurik N1c1

To clarify the question about the origin of Rurik, and, accordingly, the Rurik dynasty will be much more useful to refer to the materials of modern genetic research, which involved the descendants of Rurik – our contemporaries.

In 2012, the debate on the origin of Rurik and Rurik finally, in my opinion, put the publication of the article V. G. Volkov, "is All Rurik descended from the same ancestor?" The author, based on studies of the genetic material of living representatives of the dynasty, who consider themselves descendants of Rurik, convincingly proven Scandinavian origin of Rurik, determined that most members of the dynasty, the authenticity of the pedigree which are the least exposed doubt indeed within the degree of consanguinity with different degrees and are carriers of haplogroup N1c1. And V. G. Volkov was even able to localize the region in which this haplogroup with the relevant markers characteristic of Rurik, is formed, according to researchers, about 1,500 years ago, is most prevalent still is a district of Uppsala in Sweden, i.e. the Uppsala is the most likely place of origin of the ancestors of Rurik.

Rurik R1a

In addition to the haplogroup N1c1, part of the study, considering themselves descendants of Rurik, was discovered haplogroup R1a. This Prince Obolensky, Volkonsky, bariatinsky, Shuya, Karpov, Beloselsky-Belozersky and Drutsky-Sokolinsky. However, a detailed study of their genetic code showed that most of them are not even blood relatives, that is, their haplotypes belong to different subclades in this group of seven people, there are as many as four. Besides, the bloodline of those who are genetic relatives of the princes Volkonsky, bariatinsky and Obolensky was challenged in the nineteenth century, long before the article was Volkov. The fact that they are all pedigree books are descendants of Prince Yuri Tarusa, who was considered the son of Mikhail Vsevolodovich of Chernigov, despite the fact that the Chronicles Mikhail was only one son – Rostislav. Besides, between the death of Mikhail of Chernigov (1245, 66 years) and reliably recorded the death of one of his hypothetical grandchildren of Prince Konstantin Yuryevich Obolensky (1367, age unknown) has been more than one hundred and twenty years. Such a time gap, as well as the complete absence of any information about the Prince Yury Tarusa, more than a hundred years ago have guided the researchers to believe error or deliberate manipulation of the genealogies of these princes. Study V. G. Volkov only confirmed these suspicions. With high probability we can assume that in the XV – XVI centuries. the ancestors of the princes Volkonsky, bariatinsky and Obolensky was credited with a princely origin, in order to enhance their parochial status and be able to qualify for higher and more lucrative positions at the Grand, and later at the Royal court.

A Little about the adultery

The hypothesis that the Scandinavian haplogroup Rurik appeared because of the betrayal of Princess Irina-Higardi her husband Yaroslav the Wise with the Norwegian king Olaf the Holy, which supposedly was born to Prince Vsevolod Yaroslavich, the father of Vladimir Monomakh and the common ancestor of most of the Russian princes (except for Chernihiv branch), in my opinion, seriously considered impossible. This is reminiscent of some antinfortunistica tantrum in the style of "you got us in the door, and we out the window." Besides the fact that accusing a woman of adultery marital debt on the basis of idle gossip ("the Gothic fables," as said by the founder of the Russian antinormanism M. V. Lomonosov) humanly dishonest, it should be remembered that in the case of Ingigerda we are not dealing with a dissolute eighteenth century, when the sovereigns allowed themselves to give birth from anyone, not even with the courtly European XIII century, when encouraged Platonic love for a married lady (to the carnal pleasures there were other women), and severe XI. Ingigerda was the flesh of the Swedish kings, raised in their respective traditions and knew and understood their duty to husband, home and family.

Thus, given the fact that the Scandinavian and the Swedish origin of Rurik quite scientifically confirmed by modern genetic studies, I think, to come back to Slavic, Baltic or any other version of the origin of Rurik is not worth it.

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